Art quotes

Abstract art is a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

By: Al Capp

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
By: Marshall McLuhan

Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
By: Marshall McLuhan

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
By: Federico Fellini

All art is but imitation of nature.
By: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
By: Charles Horton Cooley

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
By: George Santayana

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
By: Henry Miller

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
By: Edgard Varese

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
By: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
By: Miguel Angel Ruiz

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
By: Edward Steichen

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation.

By: Ansel Adams

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. 

By: Roy By: Adzak

Through the various forms of modern media it seems that art has become a deluge.

By: Greg Allen

Public Art is for the birds.

By: Terry Allen

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

By: Washington Allston

Art is about paying attention.

By: Laurie Anderson

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

By: Lindsay Anderson

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

By: Carl Andre

I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

By: Carl Andre

"I don't know anything about art, but I know what I like," really means "I don't know anything about art, but I like what I know."

By: Anonymous

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate – it is life, intensified, brilliant life.

By: Alain Arias-Misson

Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.

By: Aristotle

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
By: W. Somerset Maugham